External characters
lobate, stoloniferous, spreading over substrate.
Colour
grey with white sand tracery in life; grey with white tracery in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | numerous, small and large, scattered over surface, with slightly raised membranous lip. |
| Texture | soft, compressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | opaque, membranous; uneven, covered with large pointed conules commonly connected by ridges; organised, regular, sandy reticulum over entire surface. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | membranous, arenaceous, with thick crust of fine sand grains on surface. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | dendritic, fibrous; fibres sparsely distributed; primary fibres laminated, pithed; mesohyl collagen heavy, granular, contains scattered fine detritus. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on hard substrate.
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu is.
Pacific Ocean: Australia, Palau, Vanuatu
Hooper, J.N.A. (2008). QM1829 Chelonaplysilla delicata In: Hall, K.A. & Hooper, J.N.A. (2014) SpongeMaps: an online community for taxonomy and identification of sponges. (Available at http://www.spongemaps.org).
